2020 statistics: 19,739, and 93,000

One of those numbers is the total of violent gun deaths in 2020, the other is deaths by drug overdose. “For 19,739, Alex, what is ‘deaths by gun violence?” *

There were 93,000 fatal opioid overdoses last year, up 30% from 2019.

Meanwhile, Fentanyl smuggling soars at the southern border.

Seizures have nearly doubled 2020 numbers. The number of seizures doesn’t mean that the border guards were more effective last year, just that there was so much more to find.

Priorities.

*There were also 24,000 suicides by gun which, for those inclined to add apples to oranges, still amounts to less than half the drug deaths.